PUBLICATIONS
AND
REPORTS
MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED
Department of Neuroanatomy, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Aug. 27, 1959
W.
S. McCulloch, Infallible circuits of fallible neurons (invited)
Annual Meeting,
Technology
Sept. 1-4, 1959
Association for Computing Machinery,
Massachusetts Institute of
J. McCarthy, LISP: A programming system for manipulating symbolic expressions
Third International Congress on Acoustics, Stuttgart, Germany
Sept. 1-8, 1959
M. H. Goldstein, Jr., N. Y-S. Kiang, and W.
to repetitive acoustic stimuli
T. Peake, Interpretation of responses
U. Ingard, The influence of fluid motion past a boundary on sound reflection, absorption, and transmission
W. T. Peake, N. Y-S. Kiang, and M. H. Goldstein, Jr.,
nerve to repetitive acoustic stimuli
Responses of the auditory
K. N. Stevens, C. G. Bell, J. M. Heinz, and G. Rosen, An approach to speech
analysis by a digital computer
International Conference for Standards on a Common Language for Machine Searching
and Translation, Cleveland, Ohio
Sept. 6-12, 1959
V. H. Yngve, In defense of English
Conference on Molecular Spectroscopy, Bologna, Italy
Sept. 7-12, 1959
J. S. Waugh, The analysis of nuclear resonance spectra
American Physiological Society Meeting, Urbana, Illinois
Sept. 8-11, 1959
N. Y-S. Kiang, W. T. Peake, and M. H. Goldstein, Jr.,
the auditory nerve to repetitive acoustic stimuli
Electrical responses of
Institute for Theoretical and Nuclear Physics, Naples, Italy
Sept. 10, 1959
W. S. McCulloch, Infallible circuits of fallible neurons (invited)
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MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued)
ONR Information Systems Seminar, Washington, D. C.
Sept. 14, 1959
N. Chomsky, Grammar and automata (invited)
Conference on Quantum Electronics, Bloomingburg, New York
Sept. 14-16, 1959
M. W. P. Strandberg, Analytic design of parametric amplifiers (invited)
Department of Neurology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Sept. 29, 1959
W. S. McCulloch, Infallible circuits of fallible neurons (invited)
IRE, Long Island Section Meeting, Garden City, New York
Oct. 1, 1959
W. A. Rosenblith, The electrical activity of the nervous system (invited)
Faculte des Sciences, Colloque sur l'6tude neurophysiologique et 6lectroencephalographique des hypoxies et anoxies cr6'brales aigues, Marseilles, France
Oct. 5-9, 1959
M. A. B. Brazier, The EEG in open-heart surgery and in surgery for aortic and
cerebral aneurysms (invited)
Sixth National Symposium of the American Vacuum Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Oct. 6-9, 1959
J. P. Reames, Cathodoluminescence of evaporated ZnS-Mn films
Medical Physics Group, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Oct.
7,
1959
W. S. McCulloch, Infallible circuits of fallible neurons (invited)
AEC Sherwood Program Meeting, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Oct. 12-13, 1959
G. Bekefi, Research in the Plasma Physics Group at M. I. T. (invited)
University of Colorado Medical School, Denver, Colorado (Series of five lectures as
Visiting Professor of Biophysics and Psychiatry)
Oct. 12-14, 1959
W. A. Rosenblith, Information theory and human sensory performance - The quantification of the electrical activity of the nervous system: (i) Evoked responses to
sensory stimuli; (ii) The electroencephalogram
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MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED
The packaging of sensory displays;
(continued)
the role of time in information handling
Model-making in the area of brain function
Twelfth Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference,
Oct. 14-16, 1959
J.
L. Hirshfield and G.
Washington,
D. C.
Bekefi, Cyclotron radiation from plasmas
University of California Medical Center, Seminar Series on the Application of Computer
Techniques and Communications Engineering to Brain Study, Los Angeles, California
Oct. 21, 1959
M. A. B. Brazier,
The use of computers in studies on EEG records (invited)
Fifty-eighth Meeting, Acoustical Society of America, Cleveland,
Oct. 22-24, 1959
C. G. Bell, F.
Poza, and K. N. Stevens,
Ohio
Formant tracking by computer
O.
Fujimura, Some characteristics of stop consonants
D.
M.
G.
Rosen,
Green, Detection of a pulsed sinusoid of uncertain frequency
Fricative production by a dynamic analog synthesizer
IRE 1959 Electron Devices Meeting, Washington,
Oct. 29-30, 1959
D. C.
W. D. Jackson, R. B. Martindale, P. R. Metz, and R. E. Nelson, Some implications of small-signal admittance measurements on microwave rectifiers
Lincoln Laboratory Colloquium,
Nov. 3, 1959
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
W. A. Rosenblith, Colloquium on the quantitative assessment of the electrical
activity of the nervous system (invited)
University of California Medical Center, Seminar Series on the Application of Computer
Techniques and Communications Engineering to Brain Study, Los Angeles, California
Nov. 11, 1959
W. A. Rosenblith, Some quantifiable aspects of the electrical activity of the nervous
system (invited)
University of California, Psychology Colloquium,
Nov. 11, 1959
W.
A. Rosenblith,
Los Angeles,
California
Electrophysiological responses to sensory stimuli (invited)
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MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued)
Sixteenth National Meeting,
California
Nov. 11-13, 1959
R.
A. Howard,
Operations Research
Society of America,
Pasadena,
Dynamic programming of continuous-time decision processes
The Interdisciplinary Program in the Basic Sciences Related to the Nervous System and
Mental Functions, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, New York
Nov. 13, 1959
W.
S. McCulloch, In quest of the logos (invited)
Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
Nov. 16-19, 1959
F. R. Morgenthaler,
netic ellipsoids
Detroit, Michigan
On the theory of ferromagnetic resonance in small ferrimag-
IRE Professional Group on Nuclear Sciences Conference,
Nov. 19, 1959
Boston, Massachusetts
G. Bekefi and S. C. Brown, Microwave plasma diagnostics
Northeast Electronics Research and Engineering Meeting,
Boston, Massachusetts
Nov. 19, 1959
P. E. Gray, R. E. Nelson, and J.
electronic components
Institute of Oceanography,
Nov. 30, 1959
J.
W. Kuiper,
Blair,
Commonwealth Armory,
Thermoelectric temperature control of
Woods Hole, Massachusetts
The function of the lateral line organ (invited)
JOURNAL ARTICLES ACCEPTED
FOR PUBLICATION
(Reprints, if available, may be obtained from the Document Room,
26-327, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 39, Massachusetts.)
J.
R. Applegate,
The M. I. T. language laboratory (Educ.
Screen)
R. S. Badessa, R. L. Kent, J. C. Nowell, and C. L. Searle, A Doppler-cancellation
technique for determining the altitude dependence of gravitational red shift in an
earth satellite (Proc. IRE)
E. J. Baghdady, FM interference and noise-suppression properties of the oscillating
limiter (Trans. IRE, PGVC)
JOURNAL ARTICLES ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION
E.
J.
Baghdady,
(continued)
The design of communication systems (Trans. IRE, PGCS)
G. Bekefi, J. L. Hirshfield,
plasmas (Phys. Rev.)
and S.
C.
Brown, Incoherent microwave radiation from
M.
Eden, A note on error detection in noisy logical computers (Information and Control)
P.
Elias, Coding and information theory (Revs.
Modern Phys.)
M. H. Goldstein, Jr., A statistical model for interpreting neuroelectric responses
(Information and Control)
T. Kailath, Correlation detection of signals perturbed by a random channel (Trans.
IRE, PGIT)
O. P. Manley, A method of evaluating diffusion coefficients in crystals (J.
Solids)
H.
R. Maturana, The fine anatomy of the optic nerve of anurons.
scope study (J. Cytology)
Phys.
Chem.
An electron micro-
I. L. Morris and A. L. Loeb, A binary algebra describing crystal structures with
closely packed anions. Part II. A common system of reference for cubic and
hexagonal structures (Acta Cryst.)
F.
W. Noble, J. E. Hayes, and M. Eden, Analog computer for analysis of sums of
distribution functions (Trans. IRE, PGME)
M.
Peter, H. G. R. Venkates, and M. W. P. Strandberg, Molecular trajectories in
electric fields and state selection in a beam of sodium chloride (J. Appl. Phys.)
E.
R.
M. W.
Pike, The use of X-ray methods in solid-state studies (Am.
P.
Strandberg,
J.
Phys.)
Unidirectional paramagnetic amplifier design (Proc. IRE)
H. G. Venkates and M. W. P. Strandberg,
beam maser (J. Appl. Phys.)
Operating characteristics of a molecular-
H.
G. R. Venkates and M. W. P. Strandberg,
oscillator (Proc. Indian Acad. Sci.)
Design and operation of a molecular
P.
D. Wall, Cord cells responding to touch,
(J. Neurophysiol.)
damage,
P.
D. Wall and J.
Psychiat.)
J.
B. Wiesner,
R.
Cronly-Dillon,
and temperature of the skin
Pain, itch, and vibration (A. M. A. Arch. Neurol.
Communication using earth satellites (Trans. IRE, PGMIL)
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ACCEPTED
FOR PUBLICATION
K. R. Dawber, Photoelectric yield from adsorbed gas layers in the soft X-ray region
(Rev. Sci. Instr.)
T. Kailath, Solution of an integral equation occurring in multipath communication
problems (Trans. IRE, PGED)
R.
D. Mattuck and M. W. P. Strandberg, Quadrupole selection rule in iron group spinphonon interactions (Phys. Rev.)
R.
D. Mattuck and M. W. P. Strandberg, Saturation of paramagnetic spins by 13-Mc/sec
ultrasonic phonons (Phys. Rev.)
H.
R. Maturana, J. Y. Lettvin, W. S. McCulloch, and W. H. Pitts, Physiological
evidence that cut optic nerve fibers in a frog regenerate to their proper places in
the tectum (Science)
M. W.
J.
P.
Strandberg, Noise spectrum of phase-locked oscillators (Proc. IRE)
S. Waugh, J. H. Loehlin, F. A. Cotton, and D. P. Shoemaker, Barrier to rotation
about the metal -cyclopentadienyl bond in bis-(cyclopentadienylmolybdenum tricarbonyl) (J. Chem. Phys.)
TECHNICAL REPORTS PUBLISHED
(These and previously published technical reports, if available,
may be obtained from the Document Room, 26-327, Research
Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 39, Massachusetts.)
346
A.
C. Melissinos, Determination of the dipole moment and isotope shift of radio-
active Hg
347
A. C.
19 7
Melissinos and S. P.
isomeric Hg
352
by "double resonance"
19 7
Davis, The dipole and quadrupole moments of the
" nucleus; isomeric isotope shift
T. Kailath, Sampling models for linear time-variant filters
SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS
H. Maturana, Physiology and anatomy of vision in the frog (Proc. Symposium on
Physiology of Cell Membrane, and Mechanisms of Vision, Instituto Venezolano de
Investigaciones Cientificas, Caracas, Venezuela, July 29-Aug. 3, 1959, published
in J. Gen. Physiol. Supplement)
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